A potential way to make graphene superconducting

31 March 2014

Scientists from the Department
of Physics & Astronomy at UCL and the London Centre for Nanotechnology have discovered a potential way to
make graphene – a single layer of carbon atoms with great promise for
future electronics – superconducting. The study, performed in
collaboration with Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory is published in Nature Communications.

Graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb
pattern, is the thinnest and strongest known material and a great
conductor of electricity, among other remarkable properties. Scientists
hope to eventually use it to make ultra fast transistors, sensors and
transparent electrodes. Despite its array of exciting properties,
superconducting graphene, in which electricity is conducted without
resistance, is yet to be achieved.

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